On a chilly afternoon twelve months ago, with a huddle of dignitaries and assorted gawkers in attendance, Minneapolis City Council president Jackie Cherryhomes blessed the Shubert Theater's one-block slog down Hennepin Avenue with a bottle of frozen Champagne. The superstitious might have taken it as an inauspicious sign that the bottle did not break on the first, or even the second, hurl. When Cherryhomes did finally manage to shatter it, a small cheer went up from the shivering crowd. The long-derelict Shubert had taken its first plodding step to new life, Block E was cleared for a long-awaited retail development, and the city was... More >>>